How it started
A decade ago, the director of a nursing home approached us with a problem. His residents were regularly losing their dentures, and he was spending thousands of dollars on replacements and dealing with angry families. We started a project to develop a system that would eliminate denture loss in nursing homes, and after a couple of years of research, antenna design, and testing, Scandent was born.
Where we are
Since our launch, Scandent has been expanded to protect hearing aids, eyeglasses, wallets, cell phones, clothing, wheelchairs, and various electronic and medical devices. We have also developed wristbands for wandering prevention so that nursing homes can ensure the safety of their Memory Care residents, protect residents’ personal items, and secure their own assets with one integrated system.
Where we’re going
Scandent is now deployed in over 40 nursing homes and healthcare facilities across the country, from New York to North Dakota, and from Arkansas to Idaho. We are continuously striving to improve our system and develop new and better tags for all types of items and devices found in nursing homes. As we did at the start, we aspire to help all nursing home residents live happier and healthier lives.
SCANDENT NEWS AND MEDIA
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D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans Implements Scandent
Marquette, Mich. - September 18, 2015 - The D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans deployed Scandent this week to track and protect its members' dentures, hearing aids, eyeglasses, cell phones, laptops, and wallets. Established in 1981, DJ. Jacobetti is located in Marquette, a few blocks from the shores of Lake Superior. It supports up to 184 members and offers long and short-term care, rehab and therapy, dementia and memory care, and spiritual, social, recreational, and educational activities. |
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Scandent Receives Second Patent for RFID System
New York, N.Y. - July 14, 2015 - Scandent was granted a second patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This invention describes an RFID system for detecting and identifying lost dentures using RFID readers deployed in fixed locations in a facility and is related to its previous invention - Ultra High Frequency RFID tags that can be embedded in dentures and tuning procedures for matching the embedded tag's input impedance to the impedance of an RFID tag microchip under varying dielectric conditions. |
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Soldiers' Home Gets Scandent to Safeguard Resident Devices
Holyoke, Mass. - May 8, 2015 - The Soldiers' Home in Holyoke deployed Scandent to safeguard its residents' dentures, hearing aids, and eyeglasses. The Scandent deployment was financially supported by the Friends of the Soldiers' Home, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that purchases equipment and supports Veterans’ activities at the Soldiers' Home. Established in 1952, the Soldiers' Home at Holyoke is a state-funded, 128-bed long term health care facility that offers veterans quality health care, hospice care, and full-time residential accommodations. |
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Vladimir Djuric
Chief Executive Officer
Vlad is the CEO and cofounder of Scandent. Prior to Scandent, Vlad was an Associate and a founding member of OpenView Venture Partners, a $1.5 billion venture capital fund that invests in software companies. While at OpenView, Vlad sourced and helped deploy $50 million into seven new investments and worked with portfolio companies to develop their finance functions. Before OpenView, Vlad was an Analyst at Insight Venture Partners. Vlad graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Economics. Vlad holds a patent in the RFID field.
Akshay Athalye
Chief Technology Officer
Akshay is the CTO and cofounder of Scandent. Prior to Scandent, Akshay was a Research Scientist at the Research Foundation at Stony Brook University, where his research interests focused on RFID hardware design, protocol development, and signal processing. Akshay holds several RFID-related patents and has been involved in RFID research for over a decade. Akshay has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University, and has numerous RFID-related publications in academic and industry journals.
Richard Yao
Principal Systems Engineer
Richard is the Principal Systems Engineer at Scandent. He is a former Gentoo Linux developer with extensive experience in computer operating systems and storage. He was previously a major contributor to OpenZFS and has contributed to dozens of open source projects, including the Linux kernel. He enjoys work that improves humanity’s quality of life. He holds a B.S. in both Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Statistics from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University.